dart-sdk/docs/newsletter

Dart Language and Library Newsletters

This directory contains newsletters about the Dart language and some of its core libraries. For more information about the newsletters, see this news post.

• November 10, 2017
  • Did you know: Constructors (generative, factory, redirecting, ...)
  • Shorter final variables (:=)
• November 3, 2017
  • Did you know: Chunked conversions
  • Optional positional and named parameters
• October 27, 2017
  • Planned library changes for Dart 2.0: docs/newsletter/lib/lib.md
• October 20, 2017
  • DateTime refactoring
  • Date-Time Medium article
• October 13, 2017
  • Follow up: Evaluation order
  • Did you know: double.toString*
  • Why even simple language and library changes require so much thought, and why they often take so much time.
• October 6, 2017
  • Did you know: Static initializers
  • Changing the evaluation order
• September 29, 2017
  • Did you know: JSON encoding
  • Fixed-size integers
• September 22, 2017
  • Did you know: Literal strings
  • Void as a type
• September 15, 2017
  • Did you know: Labels
  • Making async functions start synchronously (instead of immediately returning)
• September 8, 2017
  • Follow up: call
  • Fuzzy arrow
  • Enhanced type promotion
• September 1, 2017
  • The case against call
  • Limitations on generic types
• August 25, 2017
  • Separating mixins from normal classes
  • Corner cases:
    • Inference vs. manual types
    • Function types and covariant generics
• August 18, 2017
  • Did you know: Trailing commas
  • Function type syntax: Options we considered
• August 11, 2017
  • Follow ups
    • Void arrow functions
    • Deferred loading
  • Supporting const functions
  • Shadowing core libraries
• August 4, 2017
  • Active development:
    • Better organization for docs
    • Void as a type
    • Updates to the core libraries
  • Deferred loading
• July 28, 2017
  • Intro to the newsletters
  • 1.24 language changes: Function types, two void changes
  • The unified front end, and what that means for language changes
  • Active development:
    • Better organization for docs (focusing on docs/language, with docs/language/informal for specs that aren’t yet in the language spec)
    • Resolved part-of
    • Strong-mode clean zones
    • Void as a type
    • Enhanced type promotion
    • Updates to the core libraries